What would be the purpose?
DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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for stranger things it would be how that lab in hawkings was part of a project by lex luthors father
or how netflix shows sandman and dead boy detectives are part of dc comics
That's not how it works.
Question is, how many people are actually watching CNN at this point? It is a business that is going to do business things. Honestly from what I hear, they aren’t too far off from being Trumpers anyways.
Yeah, again, don't worry about that. A lot of this is just bluster and talk to get attention. And that is what this administration wants. It's not about actually getting anything worthwhile done.
Then again, I'm Dutch so what do I know.
All I we know is every day we here big things from big orange monkey about how he's either going to change this or stop that or initiate such and so. And then.....nothing.
With Rush Hour 4 confirmed, I understand Paramount wants to bring back the Hollywood filmmaking of the 80s, 90s, and even 2000s. I have no problem with that. But I do have a problem with the fact that they're doing this by bringing back directors and actors who were accused of harassment and canceled under Trump's wing.
Yeah, Rush Hour 4 is one that I'll skip just on principal. Then again, I was barely even aware that there was a Rush Hour 3.
What about the guidance counselor?
What I mean here is that they want to bring back the Hollywood film and TV mentality of that era: movies and shows where Black people were the comedic characters, women, especially Latina women, weren't the main characters, female characters were only the love interests of male characters, and Latina women were highlighted for their sexuality.
What TV were you watching back then? This was, to put it in Trek terms, the era of Janeway and Sisko. Noncomedic black characters were not uncommon. Actors like Denzel Washington and Samuel Jackson were on the rise. Wil Smith became an action star and box office draw. In movies the 80s gave us Sarah Conner and Ellen Ripley. Which is not to say certain stereotypes didn’t persist, but it wasn’t as bleak as you’re painting it.
On the other hand, movies have been perennially worse at diversity than contemporary TV. One trend that's often bothered me is the tendency of movies set in majority-nonwhite cities to have overwhelmingly white casts -- Minority Report in Washington DC, Limitless in New York City, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in the San Francisco Bay Area. TV shows in general tend to have much more diverse casts. (Although the reverse can happen. The RoboCop movies had impressively diverse supporting casts, but RoboCop: The Series had an overwhelmingly white cast, with only one Black regular and a handful of nonwhite guest stars, even though it was set in majority-Black Detroit and filmed in Toronto, which had at least a 40% nonwhite population when the series was made.) LGBTQ characters are also far more rare in movies than they have been in TV over the past couple of decades, though TV seems to be getting worse at it lately.
I was born in 1997, so I didn't see much of the '90s. But when I watch something from the '90s or 2000s, I usually encounter things like this. Most movies starring Will Smith and Samuel L. Jackson are filled with funny black characters, but as someone who also closely follows the Terminator and Alien series and watched a season and a half of Alias, I know there were movies and TV shows with female leads, but they were in the minority.
Movies like
Friday
The nutty professor
Bootie Tang
Any movie with Rob Schneider
Unapologetic and offensive movies to now culture
But we're getting off topic on DC James Gunn era talk
Also, having watched all the Star Trek series, yes, there were some Star Trek shows in the 90s that featured a non-comedy black captain and female lead, but they were very few compared to other shows produced at the time.
I think so too.
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While I understand the kind of comedic characters you’re referring to, I just wanted to point out that it is possible to be both funny and awesome. Eddie Murphy was very funny in Beverly Hills Cop. He was also The Man.
So I think this is real? (So hard to be sure these days.)
ETA: It’s real — it’s also on the official Warner Bros. X page.
ETA: It’s real — it’s also on the official Warner Bros. X page.
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true.
Lost opportunity costs.
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